Lewis Cawte

Designs railway tracks full time, runs an IT thing @ShoutWiki sometimes.
Leads Scouts and does other things for free. Blood Donor #GiveBlood.
#DerbyGrad

[Lewis Cawte @Lcawte]

@philatrail Ah, I see. You've also seen this show before.

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@GiveBloodNHS I know you only collect cancellation reasons for statistical reasons, but, it'd be quite cool if you could also pass that detail in some way to the systems that decide who you chase donors for new appointments.

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@nationalrailenq With Renfe travel enquiries too?

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@ThisIsHaden The city of Scotland? 🤔

[Lewis Cawte @Lcawte]

@skuberfacts @anon_opin Also depends on the building construction. Due to the big open spaces, there's often very few supports in mid-sections of the roof, so you have to be careful about adding more load and reducing all the spare capacity built for wind/rain/snow loads etc.

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@ThisIsHaden

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@TLRailUK So was it expected to call at ECR on its amended schedule?

Station announcements suggested it was, but, it ran through at line speed.

[Lewis Cawte @Lcawte]

@TLRailUK 9S43 (originally the 16:59) was announced at ECR as calling but running fast, stopping at GTW and BTN only. Seems the messaging got a little muddled - non-stopped ECR - was this the plan?

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@LinusTech No freaking way!!

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@TLRailUK Nope, sorry.

Should be reasonably easy to remove, will probably peel right off. Didn't look particularly offensive, just obscuring safety posters. As I didn't have gloves, I wasn't going to risk it myself with all the safety advice notes (NRA24-02 etc) out there.

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@TLRailUK Safety notices defaced on 700140 - 410140 car, above A1/A2 doors.

Looks like someone's applied their own stickers.

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@goatpurple1 @d_feldman @the_transit_guy A number of European companies/teams are involved in all the bidding consortium.

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@AbraLincoln09 @allen_goode @d_feldman @the_transit_guy Not the political will for it in Canada either?

[Lewis Cawte @Lcawte]

@Trying_Very @LouHaigh @mayorterekhov The tender is for Transport Planning - ie, consultancy into what network they're looking to build/restore.

I'd expect that for Ukraine tenders, weight might be given to those firms "giving" by not taking regular margins on these contracts.

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One of those days with public transport it seems. Very rare to be this disrupted, but, every single leg of this trip to Birmingham has had some sort of delay.

On the plus side, I'm getting to check out one of @AvantiWestCoast's new 805 sets as a result 👍

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What must a railway worker/enthusiast do when on holiday in Prague for dinner - get dinner and a pint on a train!

Even had signal priority due to an earlier signalling fault. Can't get away from these things!

[Lewis Cawte @Lcawte]

@TheMexicanMoose Riga, Vilnius and Warsaw. And the journey along the way.

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Day One of the rail adventure using Interrail.

One nice orange FLIRT later and I'm standing in Valka and Valga... at the same time. Border town between Estonia and Latvia.

As a Brit, particularly post Brexit, this feels very odd. Nice swing between countries too!

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@TLRailUK Automated announcements are being played with by gremlins on 101 tonight. Absolutely random it seems, leading to a lot of confused passengers.

(It was Brooklands Park, not a station beginning with D, we got it on the approach to TBD again)

9T51 BDM-BTN

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@Coastway_Will @jackrailsecrets @GarethDennis Out front of Derby, main entrance, isn't it?